Charcoal is a diverse, sensitive drawing medium. This study by artist Helen Murgatroyd shows a charcoal stick used to make a variety of drawn lines, using different pressures and different parts of the charcoal. Textural effects can be made using a tapping movement or by rubbing the charcoal onto a textured material through thin paper. Smudging soft charcoal will give a gray tone, like a wash, which then can be fixed and combined with line work in harder charcoal.
Soft willow charcoal was used to achieve a variety of marks in this sketch.
Charcoal comes in a variety of sizes and densities.
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